Less than 12 hours after co-sponsoring a labour-led discussion on the rights of gig workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW) announced it had…
Entering year three of the pandemic, case counts have exploded, admissions to hospitals are rising, ICUs are filling up and our public services are at…
Workers at five Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) stores in southern Ontario have been on strike since October 29. Workers are striking in London, Waterloo, Kitchener,…
Over the last several months Doug Ford’s Conseravtive government in Ontario has been busy trying to give itself a makeover. Ontarians were treated to a…
Yesterday in the Nova Scotia legislature the newly-elected Progressive Conservative Premier Tim Houston stated that he will not raise the minimum wage to $15 an…
The winning of a $15 minimum wage is the product of years of organizing. This shows how we can win reforms by campaigning, even under right wing governments. But we will need to redouble our organizing efforts to win the stronger employment standards and higher wages that Ontario workers desperately need in our post-pandemic world.
With COVID-19 case rates across Canada decreasing, provinces are pushing to reopen industries that have been closed down. This means thousands of workers who went…
On May 1 the Fight for $15 and Fairness relaunched as the Justice for Workers campaign. Spring Magazine spoke with Deena Ladd, executive director of…
On the morning of March 10, Uber Canada announced a proposal to Canadian provincial governments to provide worker benefits to couriers while maintaining the “flexibility”…
Over 1400 workers at the 11 Loblaws-owned Dominion grocery stores in Newfoundland have been on strike since August 22. The workers are striking for fair wages, paid sick days and full time jobs.
